Milton Citizens:

Thank you for your ongoing support for the Milton Coalition’s efforts to reform zoning in Milton to make it more citizen-centric.  Today, our petition crossed 1,700 signatures, with nearly 600 signers leaving comments.  And importantly, our petition has now garnered twice as many signatures as the anti-CSO petition garnered late last year.  Our Milton Coalition blog has received over 1200 page views.  This has all been accomplished in the less than 4 weeks, since we launched our latest campaign.  Our movement is gaining strength.

Citizens are recognizing that developers have too much sway over our zoning process.  Citizens are realizing that developers are cynically using environmentalism as a marketing ploy to achieve higher density housing in Milton and to open up marginal land to development.  Citizens are understanding that many practical land conservation solutions that citizens can unite behind have been ignored in favor of impractical and/or developer-promoted solutions, like “conservation” cluster home developments, that virtually no one wants.

One City Council member described this passionate upsurge in citizen involvement as a “movement.”  And certainly the signatures on the Milton Coalition zoning petition support this notion.

Please continue to sign our petition and to write to City Council members to oppose the rezoning of 745 Ebenezer Road.  And most importantly, please attend the June 20th City Council meeting to express your opposition to the Ebenezer Rezoning.  Don’t let a developer, his council member allies, and his small band of supporters bully the residents of Ebenezer, who want to preserve the rural character of their street.  Let’s say NO once and for all to cluster housing in rural Milton.  Let’s free land-use policy from those who have held it hostage now for over two years and accomplished almost nothing.  We can do better and with your help, we will.

Citizens of Milton, thank you!  We appreciate your support and are happy to be your voice for change in Milton.

The Milton Coalition

A non-partisan movement of concerned citizens advocating for clean, competent, courageous, and citizen-centric government